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Corporal WILLIAM ALFRED SNELSON

Service Number: 558330
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

2nd

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRADARA WAR CEMETERY

I, A, 6.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Alfred and Nellie Snelson, of Manchester; husband of Betty Snelson, of Didsbury, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription LIFE IS ETERNAL LOVE WILL REMAIN IN GOD'S GOOD TIME WE SHALL MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

GRADARA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1192
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